Shand Stephens

Shand S. Stephens is a litigation partner at DLA Piper whose listed offices include New York and San Francisco. His experience includes private practice and service as chief trial counsel for an international financial services corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He has conducted trials, arbitrations and mediations across the United States and supervised litigation and arbitration abroad, including in Australia, the United Kingdom, Bermuda, Canada and Switzerland.

Stephens’s matters have involved insurance and reinsurance, securities, employment, unfair competition, fraud, contracts and lender liability. His work also includes disputes involving brokers’ and lawyers’ errors and omissions and allegations of bad faith. In appellate proceedings, he has briefed and argued cases before the Second, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal, as well as appellate courts in New York, New Jersey and California and the California Supreme Court.

His representative work includes defending the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey against Silverstein Properties’ $2.75 billion contract claim concerning redevelopment of the World Trade Center, which was tried before an arbitration panel in 2010. He has also represented Hudson News Corp. in two New York wage-and-hour class actions.

Outside litigation, Stephens has served as outside general counsel to a regional bank and two charitable organizations. His corporate advisory experience includes reviewing regulatory filings, preparing quarterly and annual reports, formulating employment policies, participating in internal audit investigations and addressing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. He is admitted to practice in California, the District of Columbia and New York.